Poetry audiobooks
Viento del pueblo
By: Miguel Hernández
Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Viento del pueblo recopila los poemas escritos por Miguel Hernández durante la Guerra Civil Española. Obra comprometida militar y políticamente, recoge versos de una fuerza y un desgarro que contrastan con el tono lírico e íntimo de buena parte de su obra anterior. La poesía bélica y de urgencia de Miguel Hernández parte de lo popular, del... Read more
View audiobookPoetsy
By: David Deutsch
Narrated by: Jacob Z Klimaszewski
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Everyone feels, but not everyone proves it the same way.Some sing, others shout.Some rhyme, others curse.Some dance, others hit.These are examples of how we try to get people to understand, “I’m feeling this way, and I want you to know about it!”This book has some of my examples, and since I consider these healthy expressions, I hope they will... Read more
View audiobookPig
By: Sam Sax
Narrated by: Sam Sax
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.
This imaginative and singular poetry collection interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig—farm animal, men/masculinity, police and... Read more
Schattensinn
By: Stephen G. Hunt
Narrated by: Georg Bruckmann
Length: 28 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Willkommen in der Welt von "Schattensinn" – einem Hörbuch, das die Grenzen der Vorstellungskraft sprengt und die Essenz der Dunkelheit in jeder gesprochenen Silbe einfängt. Tauchen Sie ein in eine Reise der Sinne, während düstere Lyrik und fesselnde Klänge zu einem Erlebnis verschmelzen, das Ihre Seele in den Bann ziehen wird. "Schattensinn"... Read more
View audiobookHating To Love My Life
By: Courtlin D. Fields
Narrated by: Courtlin D. Fields
Length: 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The first of five planned volumes of poetry, The Chapbook 1 speaks of suicide, love, breakups, the loss of a child, and the loss of a parent. However, Courtlin found a way to turn these darkest memories and feelings into something positive.
As a man, it is hard to express your feelings. Then, to be a Black man adds another layer. To be a... Read more
What I Would Not Part With: Poems of First Times
By: Bruce Jennings
Narrated by: Stephen Dalton
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
I lost my wife in 2020 to a brain tumor just a few weeks after we had celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary. “Celebrated” is a word that springs back when pressed down. More subdued than earlier ones, to be sure, that last anniversary was nonetheless a felt celebration of a lifetime together. A lifetime does not disappear just as soon as you... Read more
View audiobookEl rayo que no cesa
By: Miguel Hernández
Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
"El rayo que no cesa" es un poemario publicado por Miguel Hernández en 1936, meses antes del estallido de la Guerra Civil Española. La temática de la mayoría de sus poemas es amorosa y trágica, con un tono apasionado, pues el amor hiere al poeta que, sin embargo, se aferra a ese sentimiento buscando un sentido al mundo y a su propia existencia.... Read more
View audiobookThe Raven
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: David Atwood
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
David Atwood is a professional voice actor who has been heard for decades on TV, radio, games, theater, and movies. He performed Poe's classic The Raven in theater and now presents it for you to enjoy in audio form. Read more
View audiobookRomancero gitano
By: Federico García Lorca
Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Romancero gitano, emocionante y hermoso libro de poemas publicado por Federico García Lorca en 1928, recoge la mirada del poeta a través de un retrato mítico a la vez que costumbrista del pueblo gitano. Todas las obsesiones y todos los iconos del autor encuentran su lugar en esta obra, el amor, la tradición, la muerte, la luna, el mar, y todo... Read more
View audiobookMuscadine
By: A. H. Jerriod Avant
Narrated by: A. H. Jerriod Avant
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A. H. Jerriod Avant’s debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grape’s “thick skin [that] teeth / pierce breaks to pour // sweetly across the tongue.” Throughout these pages, a deeply Southern sensibility balances an... Read more
View audiobookSiempre
By: Defreds
Narrated by: Defreds
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
«Porque un Ojalá nunca estará completo sin un Siempre». Siguiendo el camino abierto por Ojalá, esta flamante propuesta de Defreds sorprende como contrapartida y continuación de Siempre, su anterior título, un nuevo volumen en el que destacarán también las preciosas creaciones de Lady Desidia que ilustran los textos. En este caso, el libro está... Read more
View audiobookSurvivor's Notebook
By: Dan O'Brien
Narrated by: Dan O'Brien
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This powerful companion to 2021’s Our Cancers catalogs the recovery of a cancer survivor, whose wife has recently survived her own cancer, as he returns to his daily life while raising a young daughter. This prose-poem sequence is truly a survivor’s notebook, using the tools of memoir to evoke the ways in which disaster can constellate our past,... Read more
View audiobookWisdom of the Punk Buddha
By: Sam Marsh
Narrated by: Sam Marsh
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
Abridged: No
“I am a punk and a Buddhist,
And I'm not conflicted at all.“
Wisdom of the Punk Buddha is the perfect amalgamation of thoughtful poetry and the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime of Buddhist philosophy and knowledge and devotion to the punk scene. Built around a series of easy to digest life lessons. It’s a book that poses a simple question - “Do... Read more
Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door
By: Cary Fagan
Narrated by: Veronica Hortiguela
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The arrival of a mysterious new neighbor inspires a kid to write her own poetry in this humorous and unforgettable new middle-grade novel by award-winning author Cary Fagan.
Andie Gladman is your typical kid — she lives in a small town, doesn't have many friends and quietly puts up with taunts from the school bully, Myrtle Klinghoffer. But one... Read more
Escape Velocity
By: Cate McNider
Narrated by: Cate McNider
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Cate McNider's poetry is a remarkable journey through the depths of the human experience. In Escape Velocity, she invites us to explore the uncharted territories of our inner selves and discover what lies beneath the surface. With each poem, she fearlessly confronts her own conditioning and strips away the layers of habit and illusion that... Read more
View audiobookUngehemmte Lust
By: Cortney Manocchia
Narrated by: Mona Kola
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
★★Umgehemmte Lust nach anregender Erotik★★Wenn zwei Körper miteinander verschmelzen und die pure Magie der Erotik genießen. Es beginnt mit leichten und sanften Küssen, bis sie härter und leidenschaftlicher werden. Die aufsteigende Wärme, die zu einer Hitze wird. Das Knistern zwischen den beiden Körpern und das Verlangen nach umgehemmter... Read more
View audiobookThe Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri
Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"The Divine Comedy" is an epic poem by Dante Alighieri, written in the early 14th century. Composed of three parts—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—the poem is an allegorical account of the soul's journey towards God. Dante begins in the dark forest of human sin and error, travels up the mountain of Purgatory where souls are cleansed, and... Read more
View audiobookThe Asking
By: Jane Hirshfield
Narrated by: Jane Hirshfield
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine), assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an... Read more
View audiobookThe Wonder of Small Things
By: James Crews
Narrated by: James Crews
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness presents a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life.
James Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness, presents an... Read more
Sing a Black Girl's Song
By: Ntozake Shange
Narrated by: Alfre Woodard, D. Woods, Regina Taylor, Lynn Wh...
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The Millions “Most Anticipated” Books of 2023
Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays, and poems from the archives of the seminal Black feminist writer who stands alongside giants like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, curated by National Book Award winner Imani Perry with... Read more
Tarta Americana
By: J. Michael Martinez
Narrated by: J. Michael Martinez
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire
Ragged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories.... Read more
Love Her Blind and Other Poems
By: David Somerfleck
Narrated by: Marcus Mulenga
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of modern, contemporary adult poetry. Topics range from abuse, love, childhood memories, admiration, the fantastic, spirituality, observation, to eventual personal redemption. Read more
View audiobookThe Magic Border
By: Arlo Parks
Narrated by: Arlo Parks
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and “voice of a generation”—a stunning debut book of poetry and a world-building companion to her sophomore album My Soft Machine.“Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I’m not sure what gave me the courage to open up... Read more
View audiobookCampos de Castilla
By: Antonio Machado
Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Campos de Castilla, publicado en 1912, es, probablemente, el libro más influyente de la poesía en español del siglo XX. Su impacto en sucesivas generaciones de poetas, comenzando por la Generación del 98, a la que Machado pertenece, o por la Generación del 27, aún se siente y es reconocible en las voces a ambos lados del Atlántico, en España e... Read more
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